# Henry Goddard **Status: stub.** American psychologist, 1866–1957. Director of Research at the Vineland Training School, New Jersey, 1906–1918. Goddard brought the Binet scale to the United States and applied it with more institutional consequence than anyone before [[Lewis Terman]]. He coined the term "moron" at the 1910 meeting of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded to name a then-unlabelled band of the scale. He wrote *The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness* (1912), which purported to trace two lineages from a single Revolutionary War ancestor and became the movement's most-cited demonstration that social failure was inherited — and which later analysis showed to rest on fabricated and retouched evidence. From 1913 he ran intelligence testing on arriving immigrants at Ellis Island, publishing results in 1917 that classified a startling share of those examined as feeble-minded. He served on [[Robert Yerkes]]'s army testing committee. Goddard is the movement's clearest recanter. Within roughly a decade he had abandoned the position that feeble-mindedness was hereditary and incurable, and treated *The Kallikak Family* as obsolete. As with [[Carl Brigham]], the correction traveled a fraction as far as the error. *Stub — expand with: full biography, institutional network, primary-source bibliography, and downstream influence.* See also: [[Eugenics]], [[Scientific Racism]], [[Eugenics Timeline]].